To get a good basketball coach, colleges have to pry open their pocketbooks, but even that won't guarantee success in the NCAA Tournament.

Of the top 20 highest-paid college basketball coaches in the country, only six of them will be coaching in the Sweet 16 this week.

Texas Tech's Chris Beard is one of those elite coaches, although he just recently moved into the high-rent district of coaching salaries. Beard was making $1.5 million per year - which would have him somewhere around No. 60 in basketball coaching salaries - before getting a new contract earlier this month. Before the Big 12 tournament, the Red Raiders stepped up and gave Beard a six-year extension worth $19.05 million, which makes him the 11th highest-paid college basketball coach in the country.

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The seventh-seeded Aggies (22-12) upset second-seeded North Carolina 86-65 on Sunday evening in the Spectrum Center. They’re next due to play third-seeded Michigan at 6:37 p.m. Thursday in Los Angeles’s Staples Center in the Sweet 16.

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Then there are guys like Loyola-Chicago's Porter Moser, who has his team still alive in the NCAA Tournament, but gets paid about 5 percent of what guys like Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Kentucky's John Calipari make.

Browse through the photos above for a look at the salary of each college basketball coach in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.